Posted on 03/04/2024 10:09:54 PM PST by nickcarraway
Russell Wilson is soon to be a former Denver Bronco. After a tumultuous 2023 season under new head coach Sean Payton, the Broncos told the veteran quarterback that they would be parting ways with him after the start of the new league season on March 13.
The team’s official announcement came just minutes after NFL insider Ian Rapoport had broken the news shortly after 4 p.m. Monday.
“We spoke with Russell Wilson today to inform him of his release after the start of the league year,” the Broncos said in a statement “On behalf of the Broncos, we thank Russell for his contributions and dedication to our team while wishing him the best as he continues his career.
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Kaepernick is still available... /s
This.
The NFL is the only major sports league where contracts are NOT guaranteed. An NFL team can sign a player to a five-year contract for $10M/year in salary and then cut the player after Year 2, saving the team $30M in the process.
Top players have gotten smart about this. Now they’ll say: “I’ll sign a five-year contract for $50M total, but I only want $5M/year in salary. Give me the other $25M up front as a signing bonus. I’m not going to risk losing $30M if you cut me after Year 2.”
The Bears keep Justin Fields.
The Bears sign Russell Wilson.
The Bears draft Caleb Williams.
And in 3 years the Bears are looking for a new quarterback.
Mahomes was considered a gamble if you recall. He came from a program (Air Raid) that had a history of underperforming QBs at the time and he had baseball mechanics.
That’s too bad. I’ve enjoyed watching him since Wilson was a UW Badger. I liked him as a Seahawk. ;)
I’m sure he’ll land on his feet. $85 million should be a soft enough cushion. ;)
In other news: Green Bay Packer Fans/OWNERS are VERY happy with Jordan Love. :)
It is funny the most woke entertainer on the planet is dating a dumb jock.
Thanks. I did not know that. The bonus finesse is interesting.
In the example I used before, suppose the player signed a 5-year deal for $50M that included a $25M signing bonus.
The signing bonus is spread out over the life of the contract for salary cap purposes, so the player's salary counts for $10M/year against the cap even though his actual salary is only $5M/year.
If the team cuts the player after two seasons, they save themselves $5M/year in salary for the last three years, but those last three years still have the $5M/year from the original signing bonus counted against their salary cap. So the team ends up having $5M/year of bonus money counted against their salary cap for three more years ... for a player who they cut after Year 2. This is what they mean when they say a team has a "dead cap hit" from a player they cut.
Except of course the play is still happening. Football isn’t snap to whistle. Substitution, lineup, motion, presnap reads. Those are all a part of the play.
The biggest thing the NFL has going for it is that structure. It perfectly matches the “rule of 3” that’s dominated dramatic television basically since TV was invented.
Tell them what you’re going to show them
Show them
Tell them what they just saw
That’s the structure of every drama until the 90s when a few show runners started screwing with it. Rockford Files. Kojak. All the great old shows. And most of the stuff going now.
And that’s the structure of football. The commentators try to predict the play, the play happens, they analyze the play. And it’s the only sport out there that really does that.
The NFL is the only one of the American sports leagues that doesn’t default to guaranteed contracts. In this case it isn’t the guaranteed it’s the cap. Even if you don’t have to pay the player you still take the cap hit for most of the salary. Punishment for signing dumb contracts.
No, they aren't. If that was the case, then why does the clock stop on incomplete passes and plays that go out of bounds? Those things all happen before and after EVERY play.
The NFL would do well to play the game in four five-minute quarters, with the clock stopping after every whistle.
Baseball has been known for it since the first radio broadcast. The pace of the game makes it ideal for it.
That's the dirty little secret that football fans hate to admit: This "exciting" game has the same leisurely pace as baseball.
They are absolutely a part of the play. Arguably the most important part of the play. 95% of what determines which side is going to “win” the play happens in those presnap things. Especially once the West Coast Offense got invented. 3 and 5 step drops are all determined presnap, the QB reads the defense decided this guy will be open in this spot, snap, step step step, throw to spot.
The clock only stops on incompletions and out of bounds late in the 2nd and 4th quarters.
The NFL could, if they wanted to, go by play count. On average each team gets 60 offensive plays a game. So they could go to 120 plays a game. The problem with that model is it gets rid of the 2 minute drive.
It’s not the same for baseball. Nobody shows blitz in baseball. There’s not nearly as much prediction.
Notice baseball fixed the game by borrowing from football. Pitch clock, finally.
There is no damn good reason to keep the clock running between plays in the NFL -- except to reduce the amount of playing time the NFL wants to see interrupting their 3+ hour TV commercials.
The clock only stops on incompletions and out of bounds late in the 2nd and 4th quarters.
You may want to do some research and bone up on your NFL rules.
And football “fixed the game” by borrowing the shot clock from basketball. So what?
It's just as common in baseball, though it's more subtle.
Watch a game in person and see how players shift on the field between batters and even between pitches. And it get magnified exponentially when you have runners on base.
If you watch football very few times does the announcer try to predict the play.
Wilson is 35yo. A lot of great players in all sports are done by that age.
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